Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Renato Bruson (Lescaut), Kurt Rydl (Geronte), Robert Gambill (Edmondo), Brigitte Fassbaender (Una voce sola), John Tomlinson (Un comandante di Marina)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Covent Garden Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli
The sound is consistently spacious and free to bring out the strongly dramatic and characterful qualities of Sinopoli's reading.
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Renato Bruson (Lescaut), Kurt Rydl (Geronte), Robert Gambill (Edmondo), Brigitte Fassbaender (Una voce sola), John Tomlinson (Un comandante di Marina)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Covent Garden Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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The sound is consistently spacious and free to bring out the strongly dramatic and characterful qualities of Sinopoli's reading.
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Contents and tracklist
- John Fryatt (Tenor), Robert Gambill (Tenor), Plácido Domingo (Tenor), Renato Bruson (Baritone), Mirella Freni (Soprano), Mark Curtis (Tenor), George MacPherson (Bass), Brigitte Fassbaender (Contralto), Handel Thomas (Bass), Paschal Allen (Singer), Iris Saunders (Soprano), John Tomlinson (Bass), Nina Walker, Kurt Rydl (Bass), Elizabeth Stanford (Vocals), Elizabeth Sikora (Vocals), Jean Tredaway (Vocals)
- Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Philharmonia Orchestra
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Recorded: 1983-12-28
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Discendono, vediam! (Borghesi, Edmondo, Studenti, Lescaut, Oste, Des Grieux, Geronte)
Track length2:03
La tua ventura ci rassicura (Edmondo, Studenti, Fanciulle, Geronte, Lescaut, Borghesi, Oste)
Track length6:36
Che ceffi son costor?...Sulla vetta tu del monte (Madrigale) (Lescaut, Manon, Voce sola, 'Coro')
Track length2:09
All'armi! All'armi! (Voci, Lescaut, Des Grieux, Manon, Borghesi, Popolani, Sergente, Comandante)
Track length1:43
Rosetta!...Eh! Che aria! (Sergente, Borghesi, Popolani / Lescaut, Gruppo di Borghesi / Manon, Des Grieux)
Track length4:02
Awards and reviews
The sound is consistently spacious and free to bring out the strongly dramatic and characterful qualities of Sinopoli's reading.
2010 edition
Freni proves an outstanding choice: her girlish tones in Act I rebut any idea that she might be too mature. Of the others, Renato Bruson nicely brings out the ironic side of Lescaut's character
